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my views of the matter , the record of Jehovah noticed little more of the life of Joseph , than his adventure with Potiphar * 8 wife , eh . xxxix . ; the dying
request of Jacob to his son Joseph , ch . xlvii - 28—31 ; and its fulfilment * ch . 1 , 1—18 . On the other hand , the record under the name of Elobim , though brief and incomplete in its account of the lives of Abraham and
Isaac , contains a very circumstantial narrative of those of Jacob and Joseph , relating with great minuteness the various occurrences which took place subsequent to the departure of Joseph from his paternal home , and
concealing nothing which in any way tends to heighten his reputation . It describes the brilliant part which he acted in Egypt , ch . xh . —xlvii . ; adverts to the address of his dying father , so eminently honourable to him ,
and to the rights secured to both his sons , ch . xlviii . j and quotes the noble declaration made by Joseph to his brethren , after his father ' s death , ch . 1 . 14—26 , &c . Lastly , the record of Jehovah concludes with an account
of Jacob ' s death and burial , ch . L 14 ; whereas the other embraces a narrative of the adventures of his descendants in Egypt , after the death of Joseph , at a period when the seryices he
had rendered Egypt and the privileges granted to his relatives on their talking up their residence in the land of Goshen , had long been forgotten ; and even extends into the first chapters of the Book of Exodus . '
[ Desunt § 421 . 77 ie Record * contained in the Book " of Genesis are the Productions ttf \ different ffr rftersm § 422 . Of the Source from whence the
Records in the Book of Genesis are taken , § 423 . Of the Arrangement of the Records contained in the Booh of Gen 0 qts . ~]
§ 424 . Of the Benefits resulting fr&m the foregoing Discoveries , respecting the internal Construction of the Book of Genesis . Instead of testifying Ha bounden
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gratitude for the interesting ^ discoveries detailed ia the foregoing Sections , respecting the true contents of the Book of Genesis , the spirit of party will in all probability continue for px * pr the
ther score of years to tr ^ at whole with indignation and disdain ! With what degree of propriety , however , may be inferred irom the following observations : ¦
1 . According to my views of the subject , the hypothesis laid down rer specting the Book of Genesis tends very considerably to heighten its credibility * Was ever an historian known to have gone so religiously and conscientiously to work with the
materials once selected by him as the compiler of the Book of Genesis ? Fully convinced himself of the genuineness and truth of his records , he gives them to his readers exactly as he found
them ; certain , that whilst on the one hand no undue attempt was made by the assistance of false tints and a high colouring to extort admiration , the unadorned simplicity of their real form could not fail , on the other , to
insure the respect and veneration of every one . 2 . The benefits , further , to be reaped from ihe discovery in question , by the historian , the commentator and the critic , cannot but be of the greatest moment . ' The lover of history is
no longer bound in his researches into antiquity to follow the accounts of ~ a single writer ; he has the advantage of consulting two authorities where a repetition of the narrative occurs , and
can safely presume that , even in cases which appear to involve variations , both agree in the main . ] SFb longer obliged by a twofold account of the same occurrence , which he has
hitherto fancied proceeded from one and the same pen , to render the trifling variations of minor incidents consistent by a series of artful turns , or subtle hypotheses , he mjay now regard those very
differences as probfs of the independent $ Hiracter of each distinct rec < tftl ^ and $ raw the most favourable confc ^ sion * from their mutual consistency in matters of moment .
3 . Ah to the commentator * —the separation of both records ^ under the guidance of enlightened criticism , will obviate a host of difficulties whiph he
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Etch horn ' s Account of the Book of Genesis * 617
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 617, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/33/
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